Background

Born in 1957 in the western plain of Canada just north of the Montana border in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Dwayne went to the Art Student league in his early twenties in New York (1977-1978). It leads him to meet the Dean of American animal artists Paul Bransom that year in New York City.

Between 1975 and 1982, Dwayne spent his summer, July to October, at the Okanagan Summer School of the Arts, wildlife drawing classes with Clarence Tillenius as instructor and for through the year in Santa Fe, New Mexico with American western and wildlife artist, Robert Lougheed. In 1984, Dwayne attended Bob Kuhn Workshop, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Dwayne worked with the following artists: Tom Lovell, John Clymer, George McLean, Paul Strisik, Wilson Hurley, Wayne Wolfe, and Jan Sharkey Thomas. Among his classmate in the Art Student league are Steven Kidd, David Leffel, Thomas Fogarty Jr., Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle.

Here are some of the awards Dwayne Harty has won as well as some of the different memberships he's part of. For a full list, please click here. [link to a new page will all details]

• Jackson Hole Fall Art Festival Featured Artist, Wyoming, 2011.
• Explorers Club, New York City. Elected member 2003.
• THE LEONARD J. MEISELMAN AWARD.  Society of animal Artists 35th Annual Exhibition for painting titled “Algongquin Wolves”.  Ottawa Canada.  1995
• INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR and AWARD OF MERIT 1994.  Nature works exhibition, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1994.
• AWARD OF EXCELLENCE.  Society of Animal Artists,  New York.
• Member: Salmagundi Club, New York City. Member since 1992.
• Advisory Council 1992.  International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.
• THE FIRST FIVE HUNDRED.  Listed since 1992.  International Biographical Centre, Cambridge England.
• Dictionary of INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHIES.  Listed since 1991. Cambridge England.